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tuner
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tuner has 2 senses
- tuner(n = noun.person) piano tuner - someone who tunes pianos; Array is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
- tuner(n = noun.artifact) radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, wireless - an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals; Array has parts: amplifier, detector, demodulator, detector
Derived form verb tune2
has particulars: clock radio, crystal set, heterodyne receiver, superhet, superheterodyne receiver, push-button radio
is a part of radio, wireless, radio-gramophone, radio-phonograph
is a kind of receiver, receiving system
CIDE DICTIONARY
tuner, n.
One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tuner, n.
1 a person who tunes musical instruments, esp. pianos.
2 a device for tuning a radio receiver.
1 a person who tunes musical instruments, esp. pianos.
2 a device for tuning a radio receiver.
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